Vacancy Details
Job Title Learning Support Assistant Closing Date 23/09/2026 23:59 Pay Actual salary: £12,398.41 to £12,814.95 – starting salary is dependent on experience and qualifications. Hours 23 Hours x 36 Weeks Type Part Time
What we are looking for
To become an Learning Support Assistant in our Additional Learning Support department, we need someone who is committed, motivated and enthusiastic.
The successful candidate will have the chance to acquire new skills and develop their abilities in a wide range of activities.
We have a variety of students from the surrounding area, we are a welcoming and inclusive community that champions diversity and equality across our college.
Our departments collaborate to establish and uphold the inclusive HoW culture, we keep this in mind as we manage interactions with the public, fellow employees, and nearby schools.
This position is cross campus, all applicants must be prepared to travel to our other campuses or surrounding areas as required.
What you’ll be doing
To find a more detailed list of your day‑to‑day responsibilities, please refer to the key roles and accountabilities section on our Job Description. In summary, as someone who has commitment in supporting learners with SEND and promoting inclusion , you will support in many aspects. To name a few:
- You will assist students in the classroom with understanding the activities set by the tutor. As well as supporting with spelling, punctuation, and mathematics.
- Deliver high-quality, person-centred learning support through 1:1 and group interventions.
- Support curriculum delivery and learner achievement across Functional Skills, GCSE, vocational, and wider learning programmes.
- Promote inclusive practice and remove barriers to learning for students with SEND and EHCPs.
- Deliver tailored support and reasonable adjustments to meet individual learner needs.
- Plan, deliver, monitor, and evaluate learner support interventions and progress against targets.
- Collaborate with teaching staff, support teams, and external agencies to achieve positive learner outcomes.
About us
Heart of Worcestershire College, the county’s largest further education institution, offers a diverse range of academic, vocational, and community courses throughout its campuses. In all we do, our principles of diversity, integrity, partnership, and trust come through, enabling us to offer timely and knowledgeable services both within and outside of our immediate neighbourhood. By 2030, we also intend to be 90% green!
Our goal is to advance, innovate, and inspire. We’re looking for people who want to come along for the journey because our growth will be your growth.
The perks
- Confidential Employee Assistance Programme (available 24/7, 365 days a year); giving access to free confidential counselling
- Regular Continuing Professional Development
- Opportunity to gain further qualifications and enhance professional development through our Awards process
- Generous holiday allowance
- Agile and Flexible working (Dependent upon role)
- Employee discounts & benefits package including high street and travel discounts
- Fantastic progression opportunities
- A mentor to support you in your new role
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Free onsite parking (Certain Campuses only)
- Opportunities of volunteering within local community and charities
We hire people
Every person we hire has a different mix of experiences, cultures, and identities, as well as a unique background and physical make-up. Together, we strengthen HoW.
The College is striving to attract, develop and retain the very best people by offering a motivating and inclusive workplace in which talent is truly recognised.
We want you to know that HoW is an equal opportunity employer as you are probably applying for or considering applying for a job with us if you are reading this. This College expects everyone to share its commitment to promoting and protecting children’s, young people and vulnerable adults’ welfare and equality of opportunity.
For us, this means that we always work to be as inclusive as possible in all areas of employment and that we will not allow any form of discrimination.
Bit more info
All successful applicants will be required to complete and pay for a Disclosure & Barring Service check. Along with online verification to ensure the safety of our pupils.
Closing date for this post is: 23rd September 2026
Job Description
Aim and purpose of the job
- The Learning Support Assistant plays a key role in enabling learners with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) to access, participate in, and achieve success in all aspects of college life.
- The postholder will provide high-quality, person-centred support that promotes inclusion, wellbeing, independence, and achievement. Working collaboratively with curriculum staff, student services, and external professionals, they will help learners overcome barriers to learning, achieve outcomes identified within Education, Health and Care Plans (EHCPs) and support plans, and progress towards their aspirations. Through effective support within classroom environments and across the wider college community, they will help learners develop confidence, resilience, self-advocacy, and the skills required for adulthood, further learning, employment, and independent living.
- The Learning Support Assistant will contribute to a positive and inclusive learner experience, ensuring support is delivered in accordance with safeguarding requirements, SEND legislation, and the College’s commitment to equality, diversity, and inclusion.
Key roles and accountabilities
- Provide high-quality, person-centred learning support through 1:1 and group interventions, enabling learners to engage, achieve their goals, and make progress.
- Support the delivery of Functional Skills, GCSE, vocational, and wider curriculum programmes by implementing strategies that remove barriers to learning and maximise learner achievement.
- Promote inclusive practice and remove barriers to participation, enabling learners with SEND and EHCPs to engage fully in college life.
- Support learners to develop confidence, resilience, self-advocacy, independent learning skills, and positive behaviours, preparing them for adulthood and future progression.
- Promote positive attendance, punctuality, engagement, and behaviour, encouraging learners to take ownership of their learning.
- Provide personal care and physical support where required, ensuring learners are treated with dignity, respect, and sensitivity.
- Deliver tailored support to learners with identified additional needs, including those with EHCPs, ensuring agreed support strategies and reasonable adjustments are implemented.
- Contribute to learner recruitment through open events, transition, enrolment, and assessment activities, supporting effective support planning.
- Assist with screening, initial assessments, and diagnostic activities, using outcomes to inform support planning and progress monitoring.
- Work collaboratively with tutors, curriculum staff, personal tutors, and external agencies to ensure support meets learners needs.
- Support the planning, delivery, monitoring, and evaluation of interventions, measuring progress against learner targets and EHCP outcomes.
- Maintain accurate, timely, and confidential learner records, in line with college procedures, funding requirements, and statutory responsibilities.
- Contribute to the development, implementation, monitoring, and review of individual learning goals, support plans, and EHCP outcomes.
- Support learners to achieve Functional Skills and GCSE qualifications, developing the skills required for future success.
- Support learners during assessments and examinations, including the implementation of access arrangements and undertaking exam invigilation duties.
- Contribute to learner reviews, annual EHCP reviews, and multi‑agency meetings by providing evidence of learner progress and support needs.
- Ensure all support activities are delivered in accordance with safeguarding, SEND legislation, Equality Act requirements, College policies, and best practice guidance.
- Champion inclusive practice across the College, helping to reduce barriers to participation, achievement, progression, and wellbeing.
- Undertake professional development and training to maintain and enhance SEND and learner support strategies.
General accountabilities
- To commit to the safeguarding and promotion of the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults
- To participate in the College’s Performance Management Scheme and attend such training events as are necessary to enable him/her to carry out the duties of the job description.
- To continually improve teaching, learning and assessment through proactive CPD and sharing best practice.
- To actively participate in the College’s Quality System, including quality improvement strategies and initiatives.
- To undertake such other duties as may be assigned commensurate with the grade and purpose of the post.
- To take reasonable care for the health and safety of him/her and for others affected by his/her work.
- To actively support College Safeguarding, Equality and Diversity policies.
- To operate/conduct all HR tasks and functions within the principles of GDPR.
Conditions of service
The appointment is subject to the Conditions of Service for Business Support Staff.
Salary
The salary range for this post is from £12,398.41 to £12,814.95 per annum pro rata. Your starting salary will be dependent upon your qualifications and experience. Once you have successfully passed your probationary period, your salary will increase within the salary band on an annual incremental basis, until you reach the top of the salary scale.
Hours of work
The hours of work will be based on: 23 hours per week for 36 weeks per year.
Annual leave
As this is a term time only appointment you will receive a payment in lieu of holiday, which is in addition to your salary. You will also be paid for any Statutory Bank Holidays and concessionary days which fall within your working week.
Pension scheme
The College operates an occupational pension scheme, namely the ‘Local Government Pension Scheme’.
Probationary period
All newly appointed staff have to serve a 4 month probationary period. During the probationary period you will have to complete the Corporate staff induction, a Teaching and Learning Induction session if you deliver learning and additional mandatory courses on: Equality & Diversity session, Keeping Children safe in Education, Safeguarding Training session, Prevent, GDPR, Cyber Security and Health & Safety training session. Failure to complete these will prevent you from successfully completing your probation.
First aid & fire marshal
As defined in the person specification of the job description, those staff with these responsibilities are required to undertake first aid and or fire marshal duties across the College, when called upon to do so. Staff must ensure they are up to date with the relevant training.
References
Please note that without 2 satisfactory references being received before the end of the probationary period, new staff will not be able to successfully pass their probation.
Location
The successful applicant will be based cross campus at Worcester, Malvern, Redditch and Bromsgrove as and when required.
Validation of qualifications
The College will undertake qualification validation by writing to the appropriate educational institute. Only those qualifications which are essential for the post will be followed up.
Contractual requirement to obtain a qualification
If you are required to obtain a qualification as a contractual requirement, the College reviews its CPD budget on an annual basis regarding availability of funds and cannot therefore guarantee that newly appointed staff will receive either part or full funding for the course fees. However, student loan facilities are available.
Maths and English
All staff are required to have a minimum level 2 qualification in both English and Maths. If you are not already in receipt of one or both of these qualifications, you will be expected to obtain it (them) during your employment at the College.
Safeguarding
The College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults, and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
All newly appointed staff will be required to undertake safeguarding training following their appointment.
Heart of Worcestershire College adheres to the Department of Education’s guidance on ‘Keeping children safe in Education’. As part of your induction, you will be required to read and understand part 1 of this document.
Online checks
Candidates shortlisted for interview and then subsequently become successful in the recruitment process and prior to a formal offer of employment being made will be subject to online checks being carried out by a neutral party not directly involved in the recruitment process. Consent for these checks was requested at application stage.
Disclosure & Barring check
All successful applicants will be required to complete and pay for a Disclosure & Barring Service check. The costs of this check will be deducted from the applicants first salary payment from the College. The College adheres to the DBS Code of Practice and has policies covering the Recruitment of Ex-Offenders and the Secure Storage, Handling, Use, Retention and Disposal of Disclosures and Disclosure Information. Copies of these are available on request.
Recruitment of ex-offenders
The College is committed to the fair treatment of its staff, potential staff or users of its services, regardless of race, gender religion, sexual orientation, responsibilities for dependants, age, physical/mental disability or offending background.
As an organisation we use the Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) to assess the suitability of all prospective appointments. We undertake not to discriminate unfairly against any subject of a Disclosure on the basis of conviction or other information revealed.
Applicant/employees are required to declare any unspent conditional cautions or convictions under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 or any adult cautions (simple or conditional) or spent convictions that are not protected as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020′.
The only exception to this requirement is that applicants/employees do not need to disclose any ‘protected’ cautions, or convictions as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2013.
Please read the ‘Guidance Note to applicants on disclosing information about cautions and convictions in your application’ document before you complete your application form.
Having a criminal record will not necessarily bar you from working with us. This will depend on the nature of the position and the circumstances and background of any offences.
Training
All successful applicants will be required to undertake any appropriate training and development as required, including Health and Safety.
No smoking policy
- Cigarettes
- E-cigarettes
- Vaporisers
- Pipe smoking
- Cigars
- And all other associated smoking products
Applicants with disabilities
Candidates with a disability should contact the HR Department before interview if they require any adjustments to be made for the interview and/or selection tests.
Person specification
Requirements
Attainment (e.g. Qualifications, Experience)
Essential:
- Level 2 (at least) qualification in both Maths and English, or a willingness to gain.
Desirable:
- Level 2/3 qualification in Learning Support or SEN.
- First Aid accreditation.
- Manual handling accreditation.
General skills
Essential:
- Ability to provide amanuensis and reader support.
- Willingness to provide incidental personal care support where necessary.
Desirable:
- Awareness of, or experience supporting, learners with a range of SEND, including ASC, SpLD, MLD, SEMH needs, and ADHD.
Specific special skills
Essential:
- Commitment to supporting learners with SEND and promoting inclusion, with the empathy, patience, and enthusiasm to help learners achieve their individual goals.
Desirable:
- Experience of supporting learners within an educational setting through classroom-based, small-group, and/or one‑to‑one support.
Disposition/Personal qualities
Essential:
- Commitment to own continuing professional development.
- Tolerance and the ability to work well with range of learners and colleagues.
- Motivated and enthusiastic.
Desirable:
No Desirable Disposition/Personal Qualities
General points
Essential:
- Ability to work flexible hours across a working week.
Desirable:
No Desirable General Points
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